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New commander reaches out to students County wipes In first on-campus appearance, Velez vows to better perceptions of police

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

In his first on-campus outreach event since becoming commander of Prince George’s County Police District 1 more than a month ago, Commander Hector Velez pledged to improve students’ perception of police officers — the first indicator as to how relations will function under his command.

More than 100 students and seven city officials gathered to discuss those relationships in hopes of strengthening ties at last night’s event, sponsored by communication professor Kristjana Maddux’s Civic Communications class. During the discussion, students expressed

frustration and fear toward University Police and county police after last year’s post-Duke basketball riot that led to allegations of police brutality and warranted an FBI investigation into county officers’ actions.

Many students recounted times when they were either ignored by an officer or didn’t approach one because they were scared. One student tearfully explained a story about a friend who was mugged at night while walking home alone after a police officer was unkind to her when she asked to be escorted.

Velez said he was outraged that officers were allegedly unfriendly to students.

“This kind of conduct is something that I am not going

former Turtle owner’s record Liquor board unanimously votes to note Wanuck willingly gave up license

Prince George’s County District 1 Commander Hector Velez answers student questions yesterday. JEREMY KIM/ THE DIAMONDBACK

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to tolerate in my command,” Velez said during the forum.

“Yes, Prince George’s County has a bad reputation, but we are fighting to recreate that reputation. I have seen change; I have fired officers. If there’s a

bad cop, I don’t want him. I don’t want him ruining my reputation and ruining my name.”

University Police Chief David Mitchell said his

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Moving beyond fear

HYATTSVILLE – As a restaurateur still in the prime of his career, the owner of Thirsty Turtle wanted the opportunity to start fresh. And as the county liquor board rescinded the revocation of his former liquor license last night, he was given just that.

In a unanimous decision, the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners voted to wipe Alan Wanuck’s record clean of a liquor license revocation. Instead, it will be noted as a voluntary forfeiture because Wanuck voluntarily surrendered the license in November and refrained from appealing the county’s original decision to revoke it — a process that could have taken

at least a year.

“If I plan on opening up anywhere else, I’d rather have my record clean,” Wanuck told the board. “I ALAN didn’t personWANUCK ally do the FORMER THIRSTY violation TURTLE OWNER myself.

I understand I’m responsible for the person who made the mistakes, but I’m 44 years old. I’m not going to retire anytime soon.”

He declined to comment after the hearing.

Wanuck still has one violation for serving an underage

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Sexual assault victims speak out at county’s Take Back the Night

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

[Editor’s note: The last names of sexual assault victims in the following article are withheld due to the sensitive nature of the crimes.]

Some know it immediately; for others, it takes time — lots of time.

Five local women related their life-altering and often graphic accounts of the moment they first experienced acts of sexual assault and the moment they realized how much those experiences had changed them.

Often, it took months or even years for these women to come to terms with what they had been through.

“I never told anybody,” said Linda, a victim of rape. “I stayed silent. ... It wasn’t until recently that I realized I hadn’t been living life fully.”

Community members, Prince George’s County officials, police and University Health Center officials joined victims last night in the county’s eighth annual Take Back the Night event, which allows women to break the silence about issues such as rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.

Although the event was advertised on the university’s freestuff.umd.edu website and around the campus, no students turned out for the program,

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T-shirts bearing messages of sexual assault survivors were hung outside of Prince George’s County Hospital Center yesterday at a county-wide Take Back the Night event. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

DOTS’ bike award does little to assuage student concerns Officials laud honor as proof of improvement, say more must be done

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Students and officials remain largely unconvinced of the campus’s bike-friendliness, even after the League of American Bicyclists awarded this university with a bronze prize for being one of the most bike-friendly campuses in the country.

The award, which was given out as a part of the Bicycle Friendly University program’s first year, was the only honor given to an ACC and Mid-Atlantic institution. It places this campus in the top 20 of 32 applicants — an accolade officials have pointed to as a sign that conditions for cyclists on the campus are improving.

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“Winning this award puts us in a league with universities known nationwide for bike accommodations,” DOTS Assistant Director Beverly Malone said.

But students who traverse the campus daily said the university is no where near as bikefriendly as the award suggests.

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neering major Adam Davis said the campus infrastructure should be updated to better accommodate bikers, citing a need for more bike ramps that allow cyclists to easily ride from the road to the sidewalk.

DOTS officials are doing their best with what they have

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SGA presidential candidates Kaiyi Xie (left) and Ben Simon debated diversity issues facing the university community at the first-ever diversity debate yesterday in Knight Hall. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

SGA presidential hopefuls face off on diversity issues

BY SARAH MEEHAN Staff writer

In the first debate of its kind, this year’s SGA presidential candidates sparred last night over issues of diversity, an area they both said needs to improve within the body.

Student Government Association candidates Ben Simon and Kaiyi Xie touched on a wide range of diversity issues, such as holding the SGA accountable for following through on diversity initiatives, recruiting and retaining minority students in the university and uniting the university community. Last night’s discussion was the first-ever solely focusing on diversity and marked the first official debate of election week.

Throughout the debate, the differences in party makeup arose frequently. Simon’s Love Party features a more ethnically diverse group of candidates, while Xie’s Action Party is less representative of minorities. However, if elected, Xie, who is originally from China, would be the first SGA president of color in more than five years. The two candidates debated to what extent this DIVERSIONS . . . . .6 SPORTS . . . . . . . . .8

would affect governance.

Simon boasted the diversity of his ticket’s combination of cultural groups leaders — which he noted is representative of the university — and said having an SGA that welcomes minorities is crucial, but Xie said the candidates’ values are more important than their diversity.

Simon ultimately threw the first stone in a debate that was heated at times, calling Vice President of Academic Affairs candidate Jamil Scott — one of the Action Party’s two black candidates — the party’s token minority representative.

“The Action Party is almost a continuation of the SGA as it is, the status quo,” Simon said. “It’s a very exclusive organization culture, it can be clique-y. ... The simple fact being that if you have that kind of person in there, there will always be people that feel left out.”

For most of the debate, however, tensions were relatively low and the candidates got down to the issues.

Regarding the body’s accountability, both candidates agreed that publicly posting their parties’

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011

ARHU narrows dean selection Three candidates will speak at on-campus forums

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

After six months of interviewing potential candidates, officials from the arts and humanities college announced this week they have narrowed the search for their new dean to three possibilities.

Over the next week, each candidate will hold an open forum to meet the college’s faculty, staff and students. Officials said the forums will allow each candidate to hear what the university community wants in the successor of Dean James Harris, who will retire at the end of the semester after 14 years leading the college.

Thomas DiPiero — who serves as the humanities senior associate dean at the University of Rochester — will host his open forum today. Daniel Herwitz, the director of the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, will speak Tuesday, and Steven Nadler, a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present Thursday.

Public health school Dean Robert Gold, who chaired the

VELEZ from page 1 department is also working to improve student relations.

“There’s no excuse to create a feeling or to give off a perception that we’re not approachable,” he said. “We are approachable.”

Some students said they were frustrated by police’s crackdown on house parties after the closing of two popular Route 1 bars in the last year — Santa Fe Cafe and Thirsty Turtle.

“We don’t condone underage drinking, but it isn’t the underage drinking that I think is the problem,” Mitchell said. “It’s over-consumption and over-serving.

We’re not going to be naming names of a certain bar, but they weren’t looking out for your safety there.”

Although many students went

search committee, said the college needs a leader with a strong grasp of the value of arts and humanities in an academic world where those fields are often considered second to research-heavy science and technology disciplines.

Although it is uncommon for the public to review candidates before they are selected in top administrative searches, Harris said his college values openness.

“The college is a rich mixture of very involved and intelligent people and I am confident they will ask questions I cannot even imagine — and that’s nothing but good!” Harris wrote in an email.

DiPiero could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon.

While Nadler emphasized enhancing new innovations in the field, Herwtiz said his chief goal is to increase cross-disciplinary cooperation within the faculty to take the college to the next level.

“A faculty composed of arts and humanities is a rare faculty in a major university and has great potential,” Herwitz said.

“This university is really on the

to the forum to earn extra credit for various classes, some said they were surprised by how informative the meeting was.

“It was much better than I had expected,” sophomore communication major Erin Kisliuk said.

“I felt like I could personally connect to a lot of the things that were said. I felt like all of my concerns were represented. I was a little nervous at first, but I think it went very well.”

Velez said he was impressed by the positive communication.

“It’s easy to be swallowed outside, but the university is very important,” Velez said after the event. “I was impressed with this meeting. This is my first time [as District 1 commander] engaging with students like this. The students were open and spoke their mind, and I got a lot out of it. Now I know what to do to change the communication issues.”

rise, and it’s all about how to move this faculty — and the intellectual talents of the university as a whole — forward, and really commanding the job of the university in the best possible ways.”

But both candidates said before they can map out these goals, they want to hear from college members themselves on how to best move forward.

“I feel [a dean] has to be to some degree a combination of leader and also enabler,” Nadler said. “Change and progress comes from the bottom up, so I’d like to hear about the expectations of all the various constituencies — what’s worked, where should things go, and what do they think the dean’s role is in getting them there.”

DiPiero will hold his forum today at 4 p.m. in Susquehanna Hall room 1120. Herwitz will hold his forum Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Tydings Hall room 0130. Nadler will hold his forum Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Ulrich Recital Center in Tawes Hall. villanueva@umdbk.com

According to event organizers, this was exactly what they wanted.

“We decided to put on an event to better the relations between police, students and local residents because of everything that has been going on recently — starting with the Duke game last year, to a majority of the house parties being broken up this year and all the continuing issues of safety,” said sophomore communication major Jenny Hollrah, a student in Maddux’s class.

Velez said he visited the university only once about two years ago to speak to a class but that he would be very interested in speaking with students on the campus again.

“We can, and we should, all get to know one another,” Velez said.

“We have to keep building that trust.” egan@umdbk.com

DOTS officials said the campus was not built to accommodate cyclists.

BIKES from page 1 to work with, Malone said, noting the department continually seeks to add more storage and parking areas for bikes.

“We have a real conflict with the built environment,” Malone said. “A lot of the schools in California have environments that perfectly fit the needs of bicyclists. But here, the roads are narrow, they curve, there are limitations.

But I’m hoping people take [receiving the award] as a chance to improve.”

According to the league’s website, campuses were judged in five categories: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation. The bronze level indicates the university is committed to promoting bicycling and is usually strong in two of the five categories. Seven other campuses received the bronze award, while 12 were ranked higher, receiving either platinum (Stanford University), gold or silver awards.

Freshman letters and sci-

ences major Ryan Delaney said the campus is as welcoming to bikers as it can be.

“I guess it would help if they had a bike lane [on the road], but I don’t know if there’d be enough room for that,” he said.

Some students said an even greater problem is the behavior of drivers on the campus. Last semester, several small accidents occurred when cyclists and scooter riders were struck by vehicles in parking lots.

Junior mechanical engineering major Bracha Mandel said she has noticed a problem with the way bikers are treated.

“I think a big issue is that cars don’t deem bikes as important on the road,” Mandel said.

DOTS officials said they are hopeful strides will be made in the near future: Facilities Management is updating the university’s Facilities Master Plan, a blueprint of the campus’s development in future years, to include a section entirely on biking.

At a bike forum held Monday night, DOTS Director

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“I think a big issue is that cars don’t deem bikes as important on the road.”

BRACHA MANDEL JUNIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAJOR

David Allen gave a presentation on what the future holds for bikers on the campus.

The master plan acknowledges shortages in nonvehicular traffic areas, and several improvements are under consideration, including the additions of bike-only lanes, cross-campus bikeonly paths, designated “shared use” paths for both bikers and pedestrians and more road signs alerting drivers to the use of certain roads by both bikers and cars.

“The Facilities Master Plan has moved biking forward drastically,” Allen said. “But we still have a long way to go.” israel@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a source error, yesterday’s story, “SGA cuts student groups’ budgets,” inaccurately stated the amount of money the organization will be allocating to club sports. The Student Government Association will give $308,955 to Campus Recreation Services to support club sports.

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SGA approves service initiatives Legislators vote to help fund three campus events for students

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

As the semester winds down and the deadline for completing service initiatives looms, SGA legislators passed several bills last night in support of initiatives they said will benefit the student body during the last weeks of the school year.

The Student Government Association voted to help fund an Earth Day event to be held on McKeldin Mall and a lecture on promoting a better perception of sexuality at the university, allocating about $1,300 in all from the organization’s Legislative Reserves. The body also voted to help with marketing expenses for a panel on careers in science but did not designate the amount it will spend.

The Maryland Earth Day Festival, sponsored by the Green Groups Roundtable — an umbrella group of several “green” student groups — and the Sustainability Office, is intended to raise awareness about environmental issues while demonstrating the importance of sustainable living, according to the bill.

“It’s an annual tradition at Maryland, and it was so successful we decided to pursue it again,” said freshman legislator Rachel Burke, who sponsored the bill.

The event, to be held April 22, will feature a smoothiemaking bicycle that allows students to harness the energy from cycling to generate their own drinks, as well as free food, Burke said.

The second bill passed supports an event designed to promote a more positive image of sexuality, according to its sponsor, North Hill legislator Andrea Marcin.

“It’s dealing with how sexual culture is treated on campus,” Marcin said. “It’s not about ‘sex is positive,’ it’s about ‘let’s have

a more positive dialogue about sexual freedom.’”

Marcin said because certain sexual stigmas exist on college campuses, such as calling a woman a “slut,” she said, she hopes the event, featuring several speakers, will foster a more open and positive conversation about sex at the university.

The Science Career Panel, to be held April 14 and sponsored by computer, mathematical and natural sciences college legislator Elizabeth Antman, was the third initiative passed last night.

While career panels are often held for students, Antman said one geared toward students studying science would benefit those that may not know all of their career options.

Science majors often don’t know exactly what to do with a science degree, Antman said, and a panel will give them the chance to talk with professionals and narrow their focus.

“They think, ‘Either I go to med school or I do research for the rest of my life. Well, what if I don’t like a lab or I don’t want to deal with blood?’” she said.

Most legislators said the number of service initiatives passed at last night’s meeting is not indicative of a push to get proposals in before the term ends — although each legislator is required to complete one service initiative each year.

Some said the influx of legislation this week could be due to a desire by legislators to pass a second or even third initiative before the semester is over.

“I think there probably was a sense of urgency with legislators to serve their constituents,” Marcin said.

“We’re starting to see funds dwindle, and we want to see [our initiatives] get funded,” Antman added. kirkwood@umdbk.com

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AWARENESS from page 1 which was held in Cheverly, outside the Prince George’s County Hospital Center.

Allison Bennett, coordinator of this university’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program, said she and health center Director Sacared Bodison attended to show solidarity between the university and the community. Bennett said she wished students had attended, and Bodison noted it’s important for the university community to support the Sexual Assault Center at the hospital, as the program has always been willing to help the university.

“We send students who are victims to SAC because they have the equipment and staff to examine the forensic evidence,” Bodison said. “It’s a resource as well as a good partnership.”

Arnita Shelton, a forensic nurse at the hospital, said she has treated students from this university following sexual assault.

“I have been a nurse here for eight years and have done quite a few exams from college students at the University of Maryland,” Shelton said. “The ones I have done are extremely traumatic and are generally considered date rape. [The victims] really feel it was their fault —

Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker speaks at a Take Back the Night event. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

they shouldn’t have had that drink, shouldn’t have left with him, etc. ... The main thing we want them to know is it’s not their fault.”

Sexual Assault Center representatives said the ultimate goal is to decrease the number of sexual assaults — at least in the immediate area.

The five victims who chose to speak shared their uniquely terrible experiences in personal ways, from reciting poems to reading official statistics to recounting the events in monologue form.

“Sexual abuse is the silent epidemic,” said Jan, a rape victim.

“One in eight women are sexually abused in Maryland. Nationally, one in four women and one in six men are sexually abused.

... Every two minutes someone is getting hurt.”

All the women emphasized the length of time it takes to get over being abused. For some, it took decades for them to accept that their experience was sexual abuse. Linda works at the center and had for a number of years before she sought help.

She told her story at a lectern, standing before T-shirts decorated by victims. Throughout the presentations, several audience members cried openly as others quietly wiped their tears.

Linda said the night she was raped began at a nightclub with friends. She said she was wearing “a typical going-out outfit: short skirt, little top and high heels.” After realizing she had

forgotten some of her belongings inside, she left her group of friends to get them. After declining a manager’s offer to walk her to her car, a man approached her, asking for a light.

“When I held it up, he blew it out and grabbed my wrist, at the same time putting a hand over my mouth. He and his buddy raped me,” she said. “Then the manager came out, and I scared them away when I screamed. He offered to call the police, but all I could do was shake my head. A few days before, one of my best friends had been raped, and when she reported it, she was made to feel like it was her fault for dressing as she did. I just couldn’t deal with that.”

Students hold their own Take Back the Night event tonight in Stamp Student Union from 5 to 8.

Linda said the issue is an especially important one for students to be aware of — according to the U.S. Justice Department, one in every five college-age women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate. Linda said this is typical of victims, who often live in denial or hardly live at all.

“You can only live so much after it happens,” Linda said. “It’s like you’re living in a vacuum.

And with this issue, who wants to talk about it? Students need to be aware. It’s the only way to help.” romas@umdbk.com

Reporter recounts experience in Japan

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

When The Washington Post sports reporter Rick Maese and his wife arrived in Japan last month, the last thing he wanted to do was work.

But when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan on March 11, Maese dropped his plans, picked up his BlackBerry and set off to the heart of the chaos.

About 20 students and three journalism instructors joined Maese in Knight Hall to hear his experiences reporting on the devastation Japan, typing stories on his BlackBerry for eight days of 24-hour coverage.

“I swear I had calluses on my thumbs from all the notes I was typing into my phone,” he said.

His wife is also a reporter, for the Annapolis-based newspaper The Capital.

Maese said he and his wife had just finished touring the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum when they came to a train station to find transit at a standstill and

images of houses floating away flashing across TV screens.

Because the news was all in Japanese, Maese said he had no grasp of the magnitude of destruction he was seeing. He even went out bar-hopping with his wife and friends that night. But when his editor at the Post phoned him, Maese soon realized his vacation plans were over.

“I’d say the sports editor really threw me under the bus,” he said.

“But as a reporter, you live for the big story. ” Maese, his wife, a photographer and a translator crammed into a taxi and paid $500 for a three-hour trip toward the earthquake’s epicenter.

Maese said they stopped at an evacuation center in Fukushima — where several nuclear plants are located — and then a village along the coast to speak to survivors who had lost their homes to the tsunami. He encountered a scare of his own when the translator suddenly told everyone to hush so she could hear the radio — another tsunami warning.

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Maese and his team struggled to decide whether to turn around or keep going, the translator reported even worse news: a nearby nuclear reactor had exploded.

“I was thinking, ‘OK, we are screwed on both sides,’” Maese said. “We were just flipping off the ventilation, we wrapped the exposed parts of our body, we wrapped Kleenex around our ears, and we had ... caps that we pulled down over our faces.”

Maese said they decided to continue, and he does not regret the decision because it enabled him to provide first-hand coverage. But as the fear of radiation exposure mounted, he ultimately turned down his editors’ offer to stay in Japan a few more weeks.

“It was very stressful deciding to leave after eight days because it’s your story, and you don’t want to leave it,” Maese said. “On the other hand, there was radiation in the air — basically I decided that I can live with myself if I went home and regretted it and was fine but I couldn’t live with myself if I stayed there and regretted it.”

Students who attended said they left with not only a better picture of the crisis in Japan but also of what journalists are capable of.

“I think it’s a real positive thing for sports reporters that we can do anything, that we can’t only do one thing,” junior journalism major Jack Feeley said. villanueva@umdbk.com

DEBATE from page 1 initiatives was crucial to holding the SGA to its promises.

“The major role of the president in the SGA is to mainly serve as a resource,” Xie said. “In terms of followup, it’s mainly an issue of accountability to the student body.”

Xie said decreasing the gap between the recruitment and retention rate of minority students versus non-minority students is vital, noting he would like to expand mentorship programs to ensure increased college completion rates among these students.

Simon said it’s also important to recruit more diverse faculty members to ensure minority students feel more at home at the university.

Both candidates said they already have experience bringing different minority groups together.

As the SGA’s student groups director, Xie pointed to his creation of the Multicultural Expo — an initiative that gives minority student groups SGA funding for a month of cultural events.

Simon also said he hopes to incentivize collaboration among student groups, with extra rewards to groups that bridge cultural gaps and encourage crosscultural cooperation.

“It comes down to a lot of different things, different ways humans classify each other — race, gender, socio-economic status. ... The most important thing is just experience,” Simon said.

La Voz Latina, the university’s monthly Latina/o newspaper, hosted the discussion. It was moderated by co-editors in chief Felicia GarayStanton and Brandon Green.

“When you think about the SGA, I feel like diversity issues are kind of ignored and I feel like you need to ask your candidates what they can do for you,” Garay-Stanton said. meehan@umdbk.com

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tudent groups were dealt a heavy blow when the Student Govern- directly from student fees, members of the SGA have no say in how such funds ment Association announced funding allocations last week. Nearly are used.

This is a matter of fairness. Difficult monetary decisions are being made 300 student groups and club sports teams requested more than $3 million in funding from the organization but were faced with a harsh everywhere. From the state legislature in Annapolis, where $4 million is reality: Of the organizations that applied, only a fraction of the funding expected to be cut from the University System of Maryland’s budget, to Washington, where the government is on the brink of a shutdown, purses are being requested was distributed.

The SGA, much like cities and states across the nation, was faced with severe tightened. Sacrifices must be made all around.

However, the allocations made by the SGA last week decreases in funding. The organization, which is the sole seem to ask only some students to sacrifice. The hundistributor of university funds for student groups, did not dreds of students who belong to the 245 student clubs receive additional funding from Stamp Student Union as it has in years past. As a result, it was left with about By funding club sports at their and organizations at this university have been asked to $730,000 derived solely from mandatory student activity historic levels while slashing find other ways to get by. Some have urged collaboration between groups to co-sponsor each other — an idea that fees to distribute to about 245 student organizations — funding for all other student certainly has its merits. But for many of these groups, nearly $200,000 less than what was available last year. such a plan seems impossible. Group budgets have been But despite this dramatic decrease in funding for stugroups, the SGA finance so severely slashed it has become difficult for some dent organizations, the amount of money the SGA distribcommittee has unfairly groups to support themselves, let alone each other. uted to club sports remained the same. For five years, the privileged one group of Moreover, programs such as co-sponsorship awards, 42 club sports at this university have received an annual which would protect specific funding for projects groups allocation of $308,955, according to SGA Vice President of students over others. promised to work together on, have been scrapped.

Finance Robert Mutschler. That means next year, club The SGA has only so much control over the amount of money they have to sports will receive on average $7,356 per club. In comparison, student clubs — which outnumber club sports by more than 200 — will receive an average of give to student groups each year. And as with other organizations across the country, the economic climate has taken its toll on the SGA and those it sup$2,982 per group.

On top of that, club sports receive additional funding from Campus Recre- ports. However, to ask some to sacrifice so much and others not at all is a far cry ation Services, which other student groups do not. The SGA transfers the from what’s right and what’s fair. For longer than most students have been approximate $309,000 destined for club sports to CRS. As a result, the numer- enrolled at this university, club sports have enjoyed a constant flow of funding ous rules student groups must follow with their SGA funds, including not from the SGA while other clubs, which affect a larger portion of the student spending on food and returning unused funds to the body, do not apply to club population, have been continually asked to make do with less. Compromises sports. Despite receiving thousands of dollars from the SGA, which comes must be made — but they must be made by all.

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Snookered: The illusion of fame

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he media frenzy surrounding the upcoming royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton makes me want to vomit, but at least this form of obsession with fame is familiar. Even in the United States, the great democracy, we’ve obsessed over the British royal family for decades. The pathetic fascination is almost quaintly escapist: It allows people to forget for a moment their own mundane existence and imagine instead a perfect life of comfort and adoration. But there was always a gulf between the famous and the ordinary. There was an implicit understanding that to overcome that gulf was to do — or be — something extraordinary. You had to be incredibly beautiful, talented or fortunate to land on the cover of a magazine, walk the red carpet or live in Buckingham Palace.

But then came reality television.

Instead of idolizing people who had reached the apex of their profession,

CHRISTOPHER HAXEL we began to adore people who were famous for being “real” — which is to say, regular people became famous for acting irregular. Omarosa became famous for being a bitch. Kate Gosselin became famous for being a bitch with eight kids. Joe Millionaire became famous for not actually being a millionaire.

When shows such as The Bachelor and Jersey Shore transform people from irrelevant everymen into miniature celebrities, the concept of fame suddenly doesn’t seem so distant.

Getting famous becomes a goal: Snooki drops out of her veterinary technician courses at the local community college to tape an MTV show.

Rebecca Black convinces her parents to pay a company $4,000 to film a crappy music video.

Why is fame so enticing? Abraham Maslow might have argued people seek fame to satisfy their hierarchy of needs. On the surface, fame does seem to fulfill many of our basic desires: the desire to live well, the desire to be loved and the desired to be respected and important. But we forget fame isn’t a state of being; it’s a consequence. Fame used to be a consequence of greatness, but increasingly, it’s a consequence of being ostentatious. Black’s song “Friday” is ostentatiously bad. Charlie Sheen is ostentatiously narcissistic.

Snooki is an ostentatious party girl.

About a week ago, Snooki made a two-hour Q-and-A appearance at Rutgers University. The event was free for students because their activity fee covered the $32,000 fee charged by Snooki, who is basically famous for being a dumb drunk. In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, she spoke

about the first season of Jersey Shore: “I really didn’t care about the money,” she said. “I just wanted to be on TV. I was just like, ‘Yay!’” The allure of fame has become the illusion of fame. Somehow we’ve transformed from an “all men are created equal” society into an “everyone deserves to be famous” society. Black isn’t a bad person, but did she have any idea what she was getting herself into?

Why on earth would parents pay a production company $4,000 to film their 13-year-old daughter in a music video? I imagine it’s because Black’s parents think she is their little princess. Barf. I can handle a regal union of irrelevant inbreds once every decade or so, but when ordinary people begin to grow up thinking — and believing — they’re entitled to the royal treatment, I begin to question our sanity.

Christopher Haxel is a junior English major. He can be reached at haxel@umdbk.com.

Higher education: Fixing a broken system

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etween cumulative final exams, all-night study sessions, massive stacks of reading materials and hours-long problem sets, college, for many of us, seems like a never-ending barrage of schoolwork. But what do we end up taking away from all our effort and hard work? At the end of four years, do we emerge from the bubble that is college actually having learned anything?

According to sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of what has been dubbed “the most important book in higher education,” the answer is “no.”

Published in January, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses presents the conclusions of a multi-year study that tracked 2,300 traditional-age college students during their four years at residential universities in around the country. Through analyzing these students’ transcripts and their responses to the Collegiate Learning Assessment — a survey that tracks critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other “higher-level” thinking skills — Arum and Roksa discovered that after four years in college, “gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills (i.e., general collegiate skills)

are either exceedingly small or empirically non-existent for a large proportion of students.” Moreover, they note more than a third of graduating seniors (36 percent) “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” between enrollment and graduation.

Understandably, this has shaken many administrators, faculty and parents, who operate within the dimensions of our test- and survey-based, No Child Left Behind world, to their very core.

Indeed, these days, it is almost impossible to read an article on Inside Higher Ed or The Chronicle of Higher Education without stumbling upon increasingly hysterical mentions of the findings in Academically Adrift.

And while shock and outrage are certainly steps in the mourning process — and let’s face it, Arum and Roksa’s study has effectively killed the neo-bourgeois’ romantic notion that college is a place where one becomes “educated” — the time for grief is over. It is time for action.

Instead of spending excessive amounts of time on hand-wringing and endless discussions of “how this could have happened” — as many involved in higher-education decision making are prone to do — those who care about the future of colleges and universities need

KEVIN TERVALA to start finding solutions on how to fix a system that is clearly broken.

To me (as well as to many others, for that matter), the solution to this troubling trend is a simple one: Make college harder.

According to the authors of Academically Adrift, the main reason why students aren’t learning is because their professors are allowing them to get away with it; they aren’t making them work. While professors may assign mandatory reading for each class, many don’t ensure it is ever completed, preferring to lecture rather than teach through discussion — the latter being a format that would make it necessary for students to read. Additionally, the assignments and tests that are given are often so short and easy that many students are able to put off doing any work for them until the night before.

Ultimately, while we, as college students, may claim to work hard —

pulling all-nighters to write a paper or study for a test — we really don’t. Our productivity is confined to brief spurts of energy for a day or two every other week. After that, we return to debauchery until the next impending deadline.

To be sure, making students (and by extension, their professors) work exponentially harder is a proposal unlikely to attract many fans. However, in my four years at this university, the classes that have truly altered the way that I think, write and understand the world — as well as those that have been the most enjoyable — have been the ones in which I have been required to read a 200-300 page book a week and write obnoxiously long papers.

So, to the faculty at this university, I say this: As students, we rely on you: to teach us, to make us think, to challenge us and ultimately, to ensure we leave your classroom at the end of the semester with more knowledge and more skills than we walked in with. And while it is our responsibility to learn, it is your responsibility to teach. Bring it on.

Kevin Tervala is a senior art history and history major. He can be reached at ktervala@umdbk.com.

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lot of students scoff at the notion of Student Government Association elections ever y year — with good reason. Students question ever y candidate and his or her competency, reasons for running and perhaps, above all, if and how he or she will make student life better at the university. After all, words are just words. Promises are merely that — promises. Next week, you have the ability to pick from among people you have probably never heard of before, so why should you trust the things that I’m writing?

A year ago, I ser ved as a member of the presidential search committee that ultimately selected Wallace Loh to replace former university President Dan Mote. As the only undergraduate committee member, I was expected to select an individual from an incredible pool of candidates. This was tough because all I had was a high-school diploma and my peers on the committee were mostly faculty, staff and alumni. During that process, the same promises were made by each candidate for university president that are being made now for SGA president. I heard a lot about what they wanted to do with the university and how they were going to do it. But the question was, how was I to weigh them against each other? I came to the realization that there was going to have to be some trust and some faith in the candidate, but not blind faith. It had to be based on experience.

The members of the Action Party have made tangible changes at the university already.

They have worked with other student groups to keep textbooks affordable, represented the student voice in the decision to transition the university’s email system to a Gmail platform, created alumni panels to enhance career options for students, organized a speaker series to bring prominent alumni back to the campus and worked on countless other projects that have made a direct impact on student life.

We realize that for the SGA to reach its full potential, it must be more accountable to students through greater accessibility of information. That’s why we’ve successfully begun working with the administration to revamp the electronic tools available to students, which will connect student groups to incoming freshmen, uninvolved students, other student groups and the SGA. Some ideas we plan to work on to improve accountability are to make class syllabi accessible before students sign up for classes, work with DOTS to clarify parking signs, have all SGA members hold office hours in their respective constituencies and publish the SGA’s money use online for everyone to see.

While the Action Party is committed to making tangible change, we also believe that we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously. We’re a bunch of students, just like you.

We’ll level with you. We believe in aiming high to accomplish great new endeavors while sustaining past actions to make sure that previous student efforts are not lost, something that happens all too often. With our experience and our connections, we will have the ability to both set realistic goals and bring in new, fresh ideas that will be fundamentally different from any other SGA before us.

Furthermore, we have the experience to navigate through the bureaucracy to achieve these goals most effectively. We encourage your criticism and would be happy to address any concerns you may have.

For anyone looking for some Action on the campus, check out www.actionUMD.com (or Craigslist) to read our Action plan with initiatives we pledge to bring to the university and to read about our candidates and the change they’ve already been making.

SGA elections are Tuesday and Wednesday, and I hope you will vote for Action.

Kaiyi Xie is the presidential candidate for the Action Party and is a junior bioengineering and mathematics major. He can be reached at kxie@umd.edu.

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Also born on this date are Russell Crowe, actor; Jackie Chan, actor and martial artist; Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker; David Frost, interviewer; Wayne Rogers, actor; James Garner, actor; Ravi Shankar, musician; Billie Holiday, singer.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — There’s more of a mystery to be solved, so you mustn’t cease your investigations prematurely.

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LOS ANGELES – At the very beginning of Hanna, the title character stalks a deer across a snowy Finnish forest. She stealthily follows the animal for a minute or so, then ultimately kills it with a well-placed arrow and, afterward, a betterplaced bullet.

That character — quietly lethal, almost feral in her utter disregard for animal and human life — could not be further from Saoirse Ronan, the actress who plays her.

Where Hanna has been kept from society her whole life by her father, Erik (Eric Bana, The Time Traveler’s Wife), who trains her as an assassin, the Oscar-nominated Ronan (The Way Back) comes across as bubbly and personable. Her hair — long, wild and disheveled in the film — was straight and barely shoulder-length as she, Bana and director Joe Wright spoke to reporters at a roundtable at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills.

Ronan (whose first name, she pointed out, rhymes with “inertia”) seemed to be drawn to the character precisely because of these contrasts.

“I like characters that interest me, that I’m thinking about for ages and ages after I finish the script,” she said through a thick Irish accent. “And usually ones that are different from me in some way.”

When Hanna convinces Erik she’s “ready” for the mission she’s been preparing for her whole life, she flips a tracking switch and is immediately pursued by Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett, Robin Hood), a CIA agent after Erik, himself a CIA defector.

Hanna’s mission, simply, is to kill Marissa and get to a safe house — inspired, naturally, by Grimm’s Fairy Tales — in Berlin.

Along the way, she hits certain roadblocks, one of which is her sudden and debilitating exposure to technology.

Interestingly, Hanna’s first 21st century freakout doesn’t come from some highly advanced technological source; instead, it’s caused by a simple color television and tea kettle in a rundown Moroccan hotel.

“I like the idea that here’s a character who could kill a deer with her bare hands and can take on Eric Bana, but an electric kettle was terrifying,” Wright said. “I like that contradiction in her.”

To get to that point — that is, the point where she could hold her own in a fistfight with Bana and any of the colorful assassins after her — Ronan trained in martial arts and stick fighting two hours a day for several months. The training lent itself well to the hand-to-hand fighting style of coordinator Jeff Imada, who championed actual physical contact between the actors.

The style leads to a particularly realistic fight in one memorable moment: a long, one-take fight scene featuring Bana and reminiscent of the sprawling beach scene in Wright’s Atonement.

According to Wright, the technical aspects of the tracking shot weren’t the most difficult to put together.

“I think the challenges were really greatest for Eric,” he said. “On the Steadicam shot in Atonement, the challenges were perhaps greater for myself and my assistants because we were marshaling over 1,000 troops around a set. On this one we had far fewer extras.”

Instead, Bana is followed into a subway station by four anonymous agents, and the camera circles around the five actors through a fistfight and gunplay.

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such a manner, considering so many fight scenes nowadays are staged as a series of quick cuts and shaky, nauseating camera movement.

“In terms of pressure, there’s a huge difference,” he said. “To be honest, it’s an honor. It’s so rare that you get that opportunity. [Usually] most of our hard work and choreography ends up on the floor because it gets cut to pieces.”

That choreography helps to portray Hanna as a realistic threat — after all, Bana said, it’s not often you see a 16-year-old girl playing a part normally reserved for a 30-year-old man.

However, Ronan admitted that at this point she has forgotten much of the rigorous fight training that prepared her for the character.

“You look pretty lethal on the screen,” one reporter countered.

“Do I?” she asked. “Good. That’s good.”

She picked up a nearby butter knife and jammed it, handle first, onto the tabletop.

“See?” she asked, smiling. “I’m getting the passion now to fight again. Get back out there again.” jwolper@umdbk.com

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ENGELKE from page 8 with coaches in revenue sports. Even in her first athletics director job at Saint Louis in the early 1990s, Yow reportedly clashed with former Billiken coach Rich Grawer.

“I think she’s been publicly embarrassed, and she’s not used to that,” Washington Post columnist John Feinstein said on 106.7 The Fan yesterday morning. “When Shaka Smart says, ‘I would rather work at VCU for a million dollars less than come and work for you,’ which is what he basically said two days ago, that’s embarrassing if you’re an athletic director still trying to prove yourself to your new constituency down at NC State, which had a lot of doubts when she was hired.”

Williams, of course, has denied involvement in the coaching search from the start. In a statement released Tuesday, Williams firmly stated anyone who was alleging otherwise “isn’t being

NOTEBOOK from page 8 good feeling to have.”

Even though it’s now official that Carroll will take the rubber tomorrow, he’s made it clear he doesn’t care when he gets his chances.

“It’s only one game; you only get one win even if it is Friday or Saturday,” Carroll said. “I’m open for the challenge, but also, if Coach doesn’t think it’s best, then that’s fine, too.”

KIENE’S GLOVE WORK When first baseman Tim Kiene was recruited to play for the Terps, college-baseball pundits raved about the South Windsor, Conn., prospect’s hitting ability. But as he turned in one of his best weekends as a Terp at the plate against Florida State, he also showed off his defensive prowess.

Kiene made his first start of the year at first base Saturday and got the nod Sunday as well.

Coach Gary Williams may not be a welcome guest when the Terps play at NC State next season. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

truthful.” Later that night, Williams told Comcast SportsNet’s Chick Hernandez that he had never even spoken with Smart or Gottfried.

It’s hard not to believe

He rewarded the decision with several strong defensive plays, including one in which he picked a throw out of the dirt to finish off a double play.

“He’s much improved from when he first got here defensively. His footwork and his athleticism is much better. I’m comfortable with him at first base. I like seeing him over there,” Bakich said. “I think we’ve got lots of good defensive options with him and [Tomo] Delp.”

Kiene, who was a designated hitter in all prior starts, had a pair of RBI on the weekend while playing the field. And even though some players say they prefer playing on defense to being a designated hitter, Kiene said it makes no difference.

“It felt good. I got my opportunity, and I did the most I could with it,” Kiene said. “Whatever helps. I feel like I could play a position just as good. So whatever helps, helps.”

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN From the very start of the

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Williams. The idea that the coach would go door-to-door or call his colleagues to tell them to not take the NC State job is just ludicrous. He’s got plenty of other things to keep him busy at this university — namely, rebounding from the program’s worst season in 17 years and possibly preparing for life without forward Jordan Williams, who is testing the NBA Draft waters.

And while this story is still unfolding — it is, after all, still in the blame-game phase of the renewed conflict — all of the drama has made one thing certain.

If you’re a Terp fan, start setting aside some food and gas money now for the team’s trip to Raleigh, N.C., next season.

The tension in the RBC Center will be palpable, and the game’s conclusion will add another chapter to the ongoing bout between Yow and Williams.

Who knows? Maybe they’ll surprise us and have resolved their differences by then.

But probably not. jengelke@umdbk.com

season, Bakich said the Terps’ No. 1 goal was making the postseason.

According to Baseball America, the Terps would fall short of that aim if the season ended today.

The publication’s projected NCAA Tournament field of 64 teams includes seven ACC schools. The Terps, though, are not among them.

Even though the team had a solid No. 49 RPI even before beating West Virginia on Tuesday, it has defeated only three teams in the projected field. Victories against Texas and Florida State will help the Terps’ case, but winless series against projected No. 1 seeds Georgia Tech and Virginia place added importance on the team’s remaining conference slate.

Along with the Tigers, the Terps are scheduled to face projected postseason teams North Carolina, NC State and Miami later this season. schneider@umdbk.com

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GEORGETOWN from page 8 story, even if it shared an ending. A strong pitching performance from Georgetown’s Melissa Conners held the hosts to only one run in a 1-0 Terp victory. Pitchers Kendra Knight and Kerry Hickey combined to get the shutout win, but Watten felt the game should not have been as close as it was.

“I feel like we lost focus going into the second game,” she said. “I felt like we really let up, and we can’t do that.”

After the early blowout, Watten said she told her team it couldn’t get complacent.

The Terps, Watten said, almost learned their lesson the hard way.

“I think it was more lack of focus,” outfielder Amanda McCann said. “We were just kind of — I don’t really know.”

The Hoyas (9-28) threatened late in the second game after putting runners on second and third base with one out in the seventh, but Hickey was able to get a strikeout and groundout to preserve the win.

Czechner, who opened the doubleheader for the Terps, confessed to a bit of helplessness in watching the Terps (2313) close out the sweep with the one-run win last night. It was an emotion that was hardly evident in another impressive outing for the freshman, who

Designated hitter Kerry Hickey heads closer to home plate during last night’s game. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

had pitched just once since her last start March 20.

If there was any rust yesterday, it was hardly evident behind her stretch of dominance on the rubber and the Terps’ hot hitting at the plate.

“It’s definitely a big confidence booster,” Czechner said.

“It takes a lot of stress off me. I know that maybe I can try a couple different things, knowing I have a couple runs to back me up if I do anything wrong.”

While the Terps struggled to keep up the offense in the second game, their normally reliable defense also struggled somewhat. A misjudged fly ball by outfielder Sloane Van Meter in the seventh allowed the Hoyas’ go-ahead run to move into scoring position before Hickey sealed the sweep.

“We’ve got to be able to get the outs for pitching and make the plays for the pitching,” Watten said. “We got to do that consistently. ... We let a lot of outs get away from us that we should have had.”

As the Terps prep for ACC rival Boston College this weekend, Watten could only say that maintaining focus would be a focal point for the Terps as they move back into conference play.

But after tough losses last weekend to No. 25 Georgia Tech, the confidence boost from last night’s wins couldn’t be understated.

“As long as we keep our heads in the game and don’t underestimate anyone,” McCann said, “we should be fine.” dgallen@umdbk.com

NEWS

TURTLE from page 1 student alcohol — the only stain on his record that indicates any hint of the controversy that surrounded the bar last semester.

Wanuck was originally cited when two underage police aides were ser ved alcohol in Turtle. But its downfall came less than a month later when three underage students were involved in a brawl in the bar that eventually spilled out onto the street and led to a quadruple stabbing across Route 1.

But because Wanuck operated another College Park establishment — Alario’s, a pizzeria that closed last month — for 20 years without any violations, still has a career ahead of him and has already suffered great financial loss from Turtle’s closing, the liquor board decided to give him a clean slate.

“He ran a good organization, he can do it again,” said Earl J. Howard, a liquor board

commissioner. “College Park is a tough place to operate, especially with all those students around there.”

Liquor board chairman Franklin D. Jackson added that Wanuck’s willingness to suffer the financial burden of surrendering his license early — he still pays rent for the 14,200-square-foot property — also played a factor in the decision.

“That was good for us because we immediately got rid of an establishment that was causing problems in the community,” Jackson said.

“Even though it cost him a lot of money ... he stuck to his commitment to turn in the license.”

Linda Carter, Wanuck’s attorney, said the bar owner doesn’t ever plan to open another establishment in the city now that Alario’s has officially closed.

And University Police Chief David Mitchell — who called for the immediate “padlocking” of Turtle following the stabbing — said his original mission was complete.

“Mr. Wanuck will never again open up a bar in College Park. I think that’s great news because the bar he opened up in College Park was completely mismanaged,” Mitchell said. “In terms of his record, all you have to do is Google Alan Wanuck, and you’ll have the truth of what happened. ... Regardless of what the liquor board says now, the truth is online, and it’s there forever.”

The College Park City Council voted last month against supporting Wanuck’s request to wipe his record because he was not actively seeking to reopen Turtle and it didn’t see a reason to change its original ruling.

“We voted not to make additional comments above and beyond that vote,” said Mayor Andy Fellows. “That was our position at the time, and our feeling at that time hasn’t changed.”

Fellows declined to further comment. No city officials attended last night’s hearing. roubein@umdbk.com

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WAR OF WORDS

MEN’S BASKETBALL

The back-and-forth between former Athletics Director Debbie Yow and men’s basketball coach Gary Williams hasn’t exactly been pleasant. Here are some of the highlights from their dialogue and other comments from media members:

“I have a reputation of not getting along with Gary Williams, who has tried to sabotage the search.”

— Yow’s response to a reporter Tuesday after being asked about her perceived history of being hard to work for

“I don’t have any interest in the NC State search, since I’m coaching at Maryland and working hard to run our program.”

— Williams’ statement to media outlets Tuesday night explaining that he had no involvement in the coaching search

“Let’s find one person in the world that says, ‘I’ve had a good relationship with Gary In latest round of Yow and Williams’ public battle, there’s a clear winner Williams.’”

A public spat between former Athletics Director Debbie Yow, left, and Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams erupted Tuesday afternoon after Yow accused Williams of derailing NC State’s search for a new men’s basketball coach. Williams later claimed he did not interfere in the coaching search. PHOTOS BY ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN (LEFT) AND FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK (RIGHT)

Pulling no punches JAKOB ENGELKE

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hen former Athletics Director Debbie Yow left this university to take the same position at NC State last June, she explained that her relationship with Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams had been repaired, that they were ending their time together in good standing.

As she was saying her farewells in College Park, Yow even went so far as to say she wanted Williams’ name on the hardwood at Comcast Center and that she had even nominated him for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Yeah, so, umm, about all that.

In case you missed the hullabaloo from Tuesday — or if you live under a rock, because this stor y has been receiving media attention from multiple national outlets — allow me to fill you in with the short version.

Two days ago, at an introductor y press conference for the Wolfpack’s new men’s basketball coach, Mark Gottfried, Yow reignited her longstanding conflict with Williams.

During the conference, a reporter asked Gottfried about Yow’s perceived histor y of being difficult to work with and whether it had any impact on his decision to accept the job.

After a short and dodgy answer about NC State fans from Gottfried, Yow interjected, calling Williams out by name even though

the reporter’s initial question mentioned no one specifically.

“You guys, come on, I don’t have a reputation across all men’s basketball of being difficult to work with,” Yow said. “I have a reputation of not getting along with Gar y Williams, who has tried to sabotage the search. Come on.

We all know that, OK? So, whatever. It’s not a reputation. It’s Gar y Williams out there doing his thing. Whatever.”

So much for that whole repaired-relationship thing.

I’m not sure what Yow was tr ying to achieve by taking a jab at Williams, but she’s only made herself look childish, foolish and quite comical.

In reviving a feud that once seemed all but dead, Yow has recast herself as the antagonist of a conflict that has taken on the

feel of a high-school drama. The whole situation reeks of he-said, she-said.

But it’s Yow who’s come out smelling the worst. By claiming Williams interfered with her coaching search, Yow is blaming a former employee for her failure to bring in the kind of grade-A coach the Wolfpack faithful had craved.

Multiple candidates, including Virginia Commonwealth coach Shaka Smart, were reportedly under consideration to replace former coach Sidney Lowe, but none until Gottfried actually jumped at the job offer.

That’s not a result of “sabotage” from Williams — it’s a result of people not wanting to work with an athletics director who has repeatedly had tenuous relationships

see ENGELKE, page 7

— CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel on Williams during an interview on a North Carolina radio show

“You’re paying a search firm and yet you end up with a coach who’d been out of the business. I think she let that bubble up.”

— ESPN.com college-basketball writer Andy Katz on Yow’s claims during an Outside the Lines interview yesterday

BASEBALL | NOTEBOOK

Steady Carroll set to take Beck’s spot Lefthander will open Terps’ weekend series against Clemson on Fri.

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

A nine-run first inning for the Terps in the opening game of a doubleheader against Georgetown yesterday led the Terps to a comfortable 10-0 victory. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

SOFTBALL

Terps mix good and bad in sweep of Georgetown

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

The Terrapin softball team showed last night the powerhouse it can be when all systems are go.

It also showed it can get the same result when that’s not exactly the case.

In a two-game sweep of Georgetown yesterday, the Terps mixed dominant pitching with erratic offense to snap a three-game losing streak at Robert E. Taylor Stadium.

The series opener had everything coach Laura Wat-

ten wanted. The Terps’ bats were hard to stop, recording 10 runs and 11 hits, while Ashley Czechner pitched a one-hit shutout in the five-inning game. Powered by a three-run home run from infielder Lexi Carroll and a three-run triple from infielder Candice Beards, the Terps scored nine runs in the first inning and never needed to look back.

“We came out and attacked and had good energy in the first game,” Watten said.

The nightcap was a different

see GEORGETOWN, page 7

With pitcher Sander Beck’s atypical Tuesday start at West Virginia this week, the Terrapin baseball team will have a new top weekend starter when it takes the Doug Kingsmore Stadium mound tomorrow night at Clemson.

David Carroll, who has emerged as the team’s best starter this season, will start tomorrow in the series opener for the first time this season, while Eric Potter — the usual Sunday starter — will pitch Saturday. The team has not decided who will take the mound Sunday.

Fresh off a dominating victory against No. 7 Florida State on Saturday in which he pitched 7.1 shutout innings and allowed just three hits, Carroll was named the www.collegebaseball360.com Primetime Pitcher of the Week. For the season, he is 51 with a 2.15 ERA, and he has allowed only two earned runs in his last 21.1 innings.

“It feels pretty good; I just try to keep us in ballgames throwing a lot of strikes,” Carroll said. “I’ve been pretty consistent all year, which has

helped a lot. That’s probably the main thing I’ve brought to the table: consistency in the staff.”

Pitching well in big games has become standard procedure for Carroll, a 6-foot-8 junior who transferred to College Park after spending the first two years of his career at Western Nevada.

Carroll was on the mound for the Terps in their 10-1 victory at Texas, going six innings and allowing only one run on three hits against one of the nation’s top teams.

Weeks later, in a March 26 game against then-No. 3 Virginia, Carroll went seven innings and again gave up only one run. He could have earned the victory had two errors not doomed the Terps’ (14-15) upset chances.

“He doesn’t just throw strikes, he has command in the strike zone, and there’s a difference,” coach Eric Bakich said. “He’s been very consistent. That’s the one thing that he’s been for us from the start of the season until now. You know what you’re going to get when he takes the mound, and that’s a

see NOTEBOOK, page 7

Pitcher Sander Beck, above, will not open the Terps’ series this weekend at Clemson. Instead, lefthander David Carroll will take the mound. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK